This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------972E72804A9D19016A8A8647 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A good book for early life of George Washington on the fromtier in Old Frederick Mike Foreman --------------972E72804A9D19016A8A8647 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <396D1B38.B64FF3B7@shentel.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:28:25 -0400 From: Veerle Foreman <vforeman@shentel.net> X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=76 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] Re: Need help References: <20000713.171301.-397693.0.dickmatt@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For a good account of George Washington's early days in western Virginia, let me recommend Tom Lewis' "For King and County" published in 1993 by Harper Collins. It does not have any "suggestive" reports of how they spent their lonely nights, but it shows Washington as a real human being and not some demigod void of any human charcateristics. Thus, Founding fathers is taking on a whole new meaning dickmatt@juno.com wrote: > Sara, I am sure we all know that George Washington had no heirs by > Martha, but before he was very old, he apparently did spend much time in > the Orange/Old Frederick County, VA area "surveying et al". My Loftons > had his crew do their land surveying in Old Frederick Co. in the 1740s > for ex. as did many others in that era! > Perhaps, just perhaps, if DNA were sampled of old families in the > Panhandle and Shen. Valley we might find some FitzWashingtons or > FitzCoberns even today! Perhaps one in our midst should even write a > novel based on this notion of a possible inheritance with considerable > historical significance!! (move aside Jefferson!) > Dick Matteson College Park MD --------------972E72804A9D19016A8A8647--